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by Ed Pegg Jr
BRAIN BUSTERS
7 What number should replace the
question mark?
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common?
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6 In a game, you are forced to choose a
warrior to ght against. All the
warriors are waiting with their
swords sheathed. One has a straight
sword, another has a helical sword, a
third has a semicircular sword, while
the last has a wavy sword. Which one
should you pick?
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Is abc's
A bar, etc.
i.e. Talon
Evade it!
Blah! Mess!
Deem as minor
Go in, top star
I call a miscount
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a. Antistatic brush
b. Earbud speaker magnet
c. Firestarter bar
d. Lightbulb
e. Flashbulbs
f. Optical reector
g. Safe shotgun shot
h. Tennis racket
i. Smoke detector
j. Lighter int
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5 What do these words have in
common?
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1 The water hyacinth is a fast-growing 3 Place words zero, one, two, three,
weed, able to double the size of its
four, ve, six, seven, eight, nine,
colony every 2 weeks. A square
and ten into the puzzle below. The
meter colony of is in a 1-squarewords may read horizontally,
kilometer lake. how long does it take
vertically, or diagonally. TWO and
to cover the lake?
SEVEN have already been placed.
2 On the map below, the route
ABCDEFGHA is an example of a
cycle, a journey that ends at the
starting point, without reusing any
road. ABCDA, BCFGB, CDEFC,
DEHAD, EFGHE, and GHABG
is a set of these cycles that uses
every road exactly twice, except for
road DG, a new road. Find a set of
cycles that uses each road exactly
twice.
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4 Club member numbers are on
transparent badges. Two badges are
overlaid, making what looks like 89.
Neither badge has 8 or 9, but the
sum of the badges is 89. What are
the numbers?
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23
21
30
29
25
26
20
22
27
19
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catch
cabinetmaker
earthquake focus
obtains a gift
unparelleled
new to a trade
dilemma
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4 Water at 50 C and 90 C is in 5
liter and 6 liter containers. A 3
liter container is available. How
can some 70 C water be obtained?
2 The repeated digital sum, or digital
root of 6788 is 2. (6+7+8+8=29 ->
2+9=11 -> 1+1=2). What is the
digital root of the 180-digit number
10111213...96979898, made from the
numbers 10 to 99?
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6 liters
5 liters
50 C
3 liters
90 C
5 He is noble, He is rare.
He can lift you in the air.
He will change your timbre, free.
So I ask you, who is He?
6 The 9-digit number 2^29 has 9 dierent digits. Which digit is missing? Hint:
The repeated digit sums of 16,32,64,
and 128, are 7, 5, 1, 2.
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4 In dvixndfrtgdwifoduglnfsimvgrfxtolig
nwemupqseklroventmjxekplqwusojrm
bkhbvtbpjbqhxkcsuwcjhacapacaqh,
there is 1 character between each of 4
a's, 2 characters between the 4 b's, 3
between c's, and so on up to 24
characters between the four x's. Do
the same with numerals in triplicate,
so that there is one digit between
the three 1's, 2 digits between the
three 2's, and so on. Some digits
have been given for you.
__________746925___________
9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
6 On, I y. O, I oat. What am I?
7 A certain collectible card game has 1 of
50 rare cards in each booster pack.
About how many booster packs would
be needed to get a complete set of the
50 rare cards? Hint: The solution is
helped by the sequence 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 +
1/4 + ... .
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1 A chess king can move one space in 4 Match the beverage with its
any direction. Show how a king can
notable ingredient
1. Absinthe
a. 130 herbs
make a tour of all 21 squares in the
2. Advocaat
b. agave
board below, with no direction being
3. Ale
c. almond
repeated in any row or column.
4. Amaretto
5. Baijiu
6. Bourbon
7. Chambord
8. Chartreuse
9. Cider
10. Gin
11. Kvass
12. Limoncello
13. Maraschino
14. Mead
15. Nocino
16. Ouzo
17. Rum
18. Sake
19. Tequila
20. Triple sec
d. anise
e. apple
f. barley
g. cherry
h. corn
i. egg
j. honey
k. juniper
l. lemon
m. orange
n. raspberry
o. rice
p. rye
q. sorghum
r. sugarcane
s. walnut
t. wormwood
6 Which is larger, the light area or the
dark area?
F:
1,1,2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...
L:
1,3,4, 7,11, 18, 29, 47...
FL: 1,3,8,21,55,144,377,987...
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5 What do these words have in common:
angel, devil, sun, star, clown,
balloon, drum, trumpet, guitar, box,
ribbon, rabbit, cat, lion, parrot,
dog, hog, goat, horse, zebra,
unicorn, dragon, silver, gold, rock,
stone, bone, butter, jelly, ghost,
candle, lantern, doctor, surgeon,
knife, sword, damsel, hag, king, and
lady.
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The Plan of
Heijo-Kyo
(The Ancient
City of Nara)
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1 Match these symbols to their names: 4 Fill in the circles so that each line
1 , 2 /, 3 |, 4 , 5 \.
has the numbers 1 to 6, and so that
a) pipe, b) oblique, c) obelus,
no two circles have the same two
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d) virgule, e) solidus.
digits.
36
34
26
24
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3 Who are these people, and where
might they be found: George
Spelvin, Alan Smithee, Tommie
Atkins, and Richard Roe.
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A feather
It is 8:24. The hour
hand can be exactly
on a second mark
only when the
second hand is at 12.